![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Lady of Burlesque - Hunt Stromberg
Barbara Stanwyck portrays Dixie Daisy, a striptease artist at a Broadway theater in New York at the end of the 1930s. In the course of fending off the unwanted advances of brash comic Biff Brannigan (Michael O'Shea), with whom she is teamed in several numbers, and staying clear of the dressing room feuds of her fellow dancers.
Keywords: Comedy; Mystery; Romance; Barbara Stanwyck
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| Fighting Caravans - Zane Grey
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021861/ A strikingly handsome (and tall), youthful Gary Cooper -- this is the opportunity to see a giant screen legend when he was a vibrant young newcomer! This alone merits seeing this movie. The dialogue is witty, pithy and fun -- in fact, give me the screenwriter from 1931 over most of today's movies!. There is a lot of fast-paced and exciting western action (and the stuntwork is just plain fun to watch)...
Keywords: Gary Cooper; frontier; California; Cowboys and Indians
Downloads: 22,689
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| [Union Square, San Francisco Fashion Show] - Universal-International Newsreel
1950s fashion show is staged on a runway set up in the middle of Union Square Park, San Francisco. Newsreel story.
Keywords: Newsreels; San Francisco: Fashion shows; Models
Downloads: 7,512
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| With Words and Music - Andrew Stone
A gangster revives the careers of a faded Gilbert and Sullivan troupe in an elaborate scheme to get back at the girl who rejected him. The plot is farfetched, to say the least, but in my opinion, Robert Armstrong turns in a better performance in this obscure B musical than in King Kong. And the musical numbers, taken from a variety of G and S operettas, are great and performed authentically. Robert Armstrong ......
Keywords: Gilbert and Sullivan; Robert Armstrong; Mikado
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